Google Kubernetes Engine Job Trends

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Google Kubernetes Engine skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 713 648 869
Rank change year-on-year -65 +221 -267
Permanent jobs citing Google Kubernetes Engine 32 26 41
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.034% 0.058% 0.037%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.12% 0.17% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 18 21 20
10th Percentile £54,625 £66,250 £64,618
25th Percentile £60,313 £72,899 £65,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £78,810 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.01% -1.49% +6.67%
75th Percentile £94,375 £82,751 £88,750
90th Percentile £110,750 - £95,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £78,810 £77,500
% change year-on-year -8.01% +1.69% +30.20%

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK

Google Kubernetes Engine falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 25,605 15,063 35,940
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.08% 33.37% 32.87%
Number of salaries quoted 16,627 10,422 27,542
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,750 £30,500
25th Percentile £43,436 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.73%
75th Percentile £83,750 £81,738 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £51,431
% change year-on-year +4.76% +2.08% -6.49%

Google Kubernetes Engine
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Google Kubernetes Engine relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Google Kubernetes Engine job vacancy trend in the UK

Google Kubernetes Engine
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Google Kubernetes Engine.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Google Kubernetes Engine

Google Kubernetes Engine
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Google Kubernetes Engine over the 6 months to 22 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Google Kubernetes Engine in the UK

Google Kubernetes Engine
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Google Kubernetes Engine within the UK over the 6 months to 22 June 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -42 30 £72,500 -8.01% 14
UK excluding London -71 16 £72,500 -8.01% 15
London -18 14 £85,000 +10.53% 5
North of England -30 12 £72,500 -8.01% 5
North West +10 11 £72,500 -8.01% 4
Work from Home -6 9 £65,000 -17.52% 10
South West -62 3 - - 3
Yorkshire -34 1 £90,000 +20.21% 1
East of England - 1 £72,500 -

Google Kubernetes Engine
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 30 (93.75%) GCP
2 14 (43.75%) AWS
2 14 (43.75%) Azure
3 8 (25.00%) Azure AKS
3 8 (25.00%) GitHub
4 7 (21.88%) Amazon EKS
4 7 (21.88%) Cloud Functions
5 6 (18.75%) AWS CloudFormation
5 6 (18.75%) Google Compute Engine
6 5 (15.63%) SaaS
7 4 (12.50%) Cloud Run
7 4 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (12.50%) Vertex AI
8 3 (9.38%) Apigee
8 3 (9.38%) Azure Sentinel
8 3 (9.38%) OpenShift
9 2 (6.25%) Entra ID
9 2 (6.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (3.13%) AWS CloudTrail
10 1 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.38%) Firewall
2 2 (6.25%) Network Security
2 2 (6.25%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (28.13%) BigQuery
2 5 (15.63%) NoSQL
2 5 (15.63%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (9.38%) DynamoDB
3 3 (9.38%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (9.38%) MongoDB
3 3 (9.38%) MySQL
4 2 (6.25%) Cloud Spanner
5 1 (3.13%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 14 (43.75%) Jenkins
2 7 (21.88%) GitLab
3 5 (15.63%) Git
4 3 (9.38%) Bitbucket
5 2 (6.25%) CircleCI
General
1 8 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (6.25%) Law
2 2 (6.25%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (31.25%) GCP Engineer
1 10 (31.25%) Senior
2 7 (21.88%) Cloud Engineer
3 5 (15.63%) Architect
3 5 (15.63%) Platform Engineer
4 4 (12.50%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Cloud Consultant
5 3 (9.38%) Consultant
5 3 (9.38%) Java Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Apigee Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Cloud Architect
6 2 (6.25%) Cloud Security Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) GCP Architect
6 2 (6.25%) GCP DevOps
6 2 (6.25%) GCP DevOps Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Security Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Senior DevOps
6 2 (6.25%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.38%) RESTful
2 2 (6.25%) JWT
2 2 (6.25%) Node.js
2 2 (6.25%) OAuth
2 2 (6.25%) React
2 2 (6.25%) React Native
3 1 (3.13%) Keycloak
3 1 (3.13%) Micronaut
3 1 (3.13%) SailPoint
3 1 (3.13%) SAP Basis
3 1 (3.13%) Spring
3 1 (3.13%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 15 (46.88%) Cloud Native
2 4 (12.50%) Public Cloud
3 3 (9.38%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (6.25%) Cloud Security Posture
4 2 (6.25%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (6.25%) Security Posture
5 1 (3.13%) Data Centre
5 1 (3.13%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (3.13%) IoT
5 1 (3.13%) Mobile App
5 1 (3.13%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.38%) Linux
2 2 (6.25%) Android
2 2 (6.25%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 21 (65.63%) CI/CD
3 16 (50.00%) DevOps
4 14 (43.75%) Containerisation
5 8 (25.00%) Agile
5 8 (25.00%) AI
5 8 (25.00%) Mentoring
5 8 (25.00%) Microservices
5 8 (25.00%) Test Automation
6 7 (21.88%) Machine Learning
6 7 (21.88%) Platform Engineering
6 7 (21.88%) Software Engineering
7 5 (15.63%) Cloud Security
7 5 (15.63%) Data Engineering
7 5 (15.63%) Migration
7 5 (15.63%) Observability
7 5 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (15.63%) Technical Leadership
8 4 (12.50%) Analytics
8 4 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 17 (53.13%) Python
2 8 (25.00%) Java
3 6 (18.75%) Go
4 5 (15.63%) SQL
5 3 (9.38%) Bash
6 2 (6.25%) JavaScript
6 2 (6.25%) TypeScript
7 1 (3.13%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 7 (21.88%) Security Cleared
2 5 (15.63%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.13%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (3.13%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.13%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.13%) CCSP
3 1 (3.13%) CEH
3 1 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (3.13%) CISM
3 1 (3.13%) CISSP
3 1 (3.13%) CompTIA CySA+
3 1 (3.13%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (3.13%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.13%) GIAC
3 1 (3.13%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (9.38%) SOC 2
2 2 (6.25%) PCI DSS
3 1 (3.13%) NIST
System Software
1 7 (21.88%) Docker
2 1 (3.13%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.13%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (3.13%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 29 (90.63%) Kubernetes
2 26 (81.25%) Terraform
3 6 (18.75%) Istio
4 4 (12.50%) Ansible
4 4 (12.50%) Grafana
4 4 (12.50%) Prometheus
5 3 (9.38%) Argo
5 3 (9.38%) Progress Chef
5 3 (9.38%) Rancher
6 2 (6.25%) linkerd
6 2 (6.25%) Puppet
7 1 (3.13%) Cilium
7 1 (3.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (62.50%) Google
2 1 (3.13%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (3.13%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.13%) OpenText
2 1 (3.13%) SAP
2 1 (3.13%) Splunk